Cool Water Coal Gasification Program: an update
Cool Water, cofunded by EPRI et al., is a nominal 120-MW integrated coal gasification and combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant that uses the Texaco coal gasification process. Construction of the IGCC facility at Daggett, California, was completed and operation began in mid 1984. The plant continues to operate successfully on its usual feedstock, a low-sulfur Utah coal, and on several test coals. During high-sulfur coal testing, 32,600 tons of Illinois No. 6 coal and 21,300 tons of Pittsburgh No. 8 coal were burned. In the most recent alternative coal test, 23,000 tons of an Australian coal with a high-ash fusion temperature were gasified. Efforts continue to improve the operability and performance of Cool Water, the nation's first IGCC power plant. Plant capacity and on-stream factors for the last six months of 1987 were 85.3% and 87.6%, respectively. For all of 1987 the factors were 70.5% and 79.3%, compared with 56.7% and 65.9% in 1986 and 49.9% and 61.5% in 1985. 1 table.
- OSTI ID:
- 6727368
- Journal Information:
- EPRI J.; (United States), Vol. 13:6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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